Jack Wilkie (footballer, born 1876)

For the Scottish footballer born 2003, see Jack Wilkie (footballer, born 2003).

John Wilkie was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Blackburn Rovers and Middlesbrough.^[3]

Jack Wilkie

Personal information
Full name	John Wilkie[1]
Date of birth	1876
Place of birth	Govan, Scotland[1]
Position(s)	Inside Forward
Youth career
	Summertown Athletic[2]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1894–1895	Partick Thistle	21	(9)
1895–1898	Blackburn Rovers	75	(17)
1898–1902	Rangers	28	(11)
1900–1901	→ Middlesbrough (loan)	28	(8)
1903–1905	Partick Thistle	31	(11)
1905–1906	Hibernian	7	(2)
1906	→ Ayr Parkhouse (loan)
Total		190	(58)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He began his career with Partick Thistle, and returned to the club eight years later for a second spell.^[2][4] He played alongside former Jags left-wing teammate John Campbell at Blackburn and Rangers,^[5] and would do so again briefly at Hibernian.^[6]

At Rangers, he had a minor role in the club's perfect season of 1898–99 (18 league wins from 18 matches) and played more often as they retained the SFL title in 1899–1900, and in a third championship season in 1901–02. He also claimed Glasgow Cup medals in the latter two seasons.^[5]

Wilkie was selected for the Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match in 1898 while with Blackburn,^[7] and again in 1904 while with Partick,^[8] but this did not lead to a cap for Scotland on either occasion.